CVE-2015-8952

The mbcache feature in the ext2 and ext4 filesystem implementations in the Linux kernel before 4.6 mishandles xattr block caching, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (soft lockup) via filesystem operations in environments that use many attributes, as demonstrated by Ceph and Samba.

Date published : 2016-10-16

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=82939d7999dfc1f1998c4b1c12e2f19edbdff272

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=be0726d33cb8f411945884664924bed3cb8c70ee